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18 December 2009 3:24 PM, PST | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

Like most fans over a certain age, my introduction to horror came from the Universal Monster series that were syndicated for television and run late at night hosted by a wisecracking host. For every Dracula, Frankenstein, and the Wolf Man were ten Night of the Lepus, Navy Vs The Night Monsters, and Robot Monster. When you’ve got so many turkeys to present, you better be entertaining – and the hosts that I grew up watching inevitably were.

Virginia Creepers Co-directors Sean Kotz and Chris Valluzzo have assembled a collection of reminiscences by the horror hosts themselves, the fans who watched them, and a large collection of very rare footage from this era of television. The movie examines every major horror movie host in Virginia starting with the original, Jonathan in 1958 and coming full circle with the likes of Mr. Lobo, Karlos Borloff, and Count Gore DeVol the latter two having »

- no-reply@fangoria.com (John Porter)

5 November 2009 4:34 PM, PST | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

If you want to talk about badass crap, you really can’t do a hell of a lot worse than the horror genre. Whether it’s crazy Eastern Europeans with slicked-back hair and overly developed canine teeth chomping down on the necks of scantily clad maidens or demented, murderous psychopaths running around in body armor made from human skin and carving X’s into the chest cavities of wayward coeds with gasoline-powered gardening implements, horror never seems to disappoint when it comes to violent homicide or paint-bombing dungeon walls with a thick coat of crimson substances. Therefore, in an effort to promote my new book Badass: A Relentless Onslaught Of The Toughest Warlords, Vikings, Samurai, Pirates, Gunslingers, And Military Commanders To Ever Live (in which I talk about such real-life badasses as the notorious Vlad the Impaler; see the trailer here), I will attempt to discuss some of the toughest »

- no-reply@fangoria.com (Ben Thompson)

2 articles from 2009